Mounting for soap samples.



No. 768,731. PATENTED AUG. 30, 1904. R. BROWN. MOUNTING FOR SOAP SAMPLES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 27, 1903.

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ROBERT BROWVN, DONAGHMQRE, IRELAND.

MOUNTING FOR SOAP SAMPLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,731, dated August 30, 1904. Application filed November 27, 1903. Serial No. 182,892. (No model.)

To all 1071,0772, it puny concern:

Be it known that 1. ROBERT BROWN, a subject of the King-of Great Britain, residing at Donaghmore, in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Mountings for Soap Samples, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description.

My invention relates to the putting up of soap or other plastic material for use as samples or otherwise, and has for its object to provide an arrangement whereby it will be possible to form samples of soap or other plastic material in such a way that a large surface of the material shall be shown while only a very small quantity thereof need be used, the said material when put up being preserved against deterioration.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating a leaf of plastic material put up in sample form in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view thereof on line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

The same letters of reference designate the same parts in both figures of the drawings.

In accordance with my plan I make the soap or other plastic material in leaf form, preferably of circular cross-section. The leaf is pressed upon a backing-piece, which may be of cardboard or the like. This backing-piece may have printed upon it the particulars of the sample as, for example, the name and address of the manufacturer, directions for use, &c.or may bear an advertisement of the particular soap or material of the sample. This backing may, if desired, be saturated with oil or the like. A cover of like material such, for example, as oiled -paperis now placed over and pressed upon the leaf to protect the same. The sample thus formed will not break, the soap or plastic material will not become soiled or soil anything itself, and can be kept for any length of time without deterioration, especially when the material of the backing is also saturated with oil, so as to be impenetrable to moisture. When it is desired to examine, test, or use the material of the sample, the cover is simply stripped Off" to lay bare the surface of the leaf. The soap will adhere to the backing rather than to the oiled-paper cover; but the cover sticks firmly to the leaf until removed by being peeled ofi.

The arrangement above described is shown in the drawings, wherein A designates a backing of cardboard, having mounted thereon a leaf'of soap or other plastic material B. Upon this leaf is pressed the cover 0, which may be of oiled paper or the like.

The especial advantage of my invention is that a large surface of the soap or other material can be exposed for use or otherwise, although but a small quantity thereof is required.

I claim- 1. A sample or single user of'soap, comprising a thin shaving of soap, a stiff backing-piece upon which said shaving is pressed to adhere thereto, and a cover pressed upon and adhering to said soap.

2. The combination with a thin leaf of soap, of a cardboard backing-piece upon which the same is pressed to adhere'thereto, and a removable oiled-paper cover pressed upon and adhering to the outer surface of the soap.

In witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my name this 17th day of November, A. D. 1903.

ROBERT BROW'N. 

